On Saturday we learned that plans were very likely in the works for a concert tour announcement for a co-headlining tour featuring Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias. Today we get official confirmation that this co-headlining tour is a go. According to a press release issued today, Britney and Enrique will hit the road together this Summer, kicking off their co-headlining tour in June. Read all the official deets and the official tour dates below.
Britney Spears will announce on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today that she will tour North America with Enrique Iglesias, Billboard.biz has learned. Today is the official release date of Spears’ seventh studio album, “Femme Fatale.” The tour begins June 17 in Sacramento and will play 26 arenas in the first round of dates to be announced. It is likely that more dates will be added. The tour will be produced by Live Nation, with veteran pop tour promoter Brad Wavra, VP at Live Nation, running point. Wavra has previously steered successful tours by such acts as Backstreet Boys, ‘Nsync and the Jonas Brothers. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. Additional on-sale dates will be announced at a later date. Citi cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass Program. Iglesias is currently on a European tour in support of his latest album “Euphoria,” his first to feature songs in both Spanish and English. Iglesias will carry full production on the Spears tour. While two such high-profile artists with top-shelf production values is sure to be attractive to fans, such an endeavor is also very expensive to produce. Spears’ last run, the “Circus” tour in 2009, was a worldwide trek produced by AEG Live that grossed $120 million and drew more than 1.3 million people over 84 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. That tour was considered a comeback of sorts, and was the seventh-highest grossing tour in the world for that year. Larry Rudolph’s Reign Deer Management, which manages Spears, is now affiliated with the Front Line Group of managers, a division of Live Nation Entertainment headed by LN chairman Irving Azoff. Spears is booked by John Marx at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment; Iglesias is booked by Creative Artists Agency.
Tour Dates:
June 17 Sacramento, CA Power Balance Pavilion
June 18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
June 20 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
June 24 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
June 25 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand
June 28 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena
June 29 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
July 1 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
July 4 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
July 6 St. Paul, MN Xcel Center
July 8 Chicago, IL United Center
July 12 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
July 13 Houston, TX Toyota Center
July 15 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
July 17 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
July 20 Orlando, FL Amway Center
July 22 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
July 26 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
July 28 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
July 30 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
July 31 Washington, DC Verizon Center
August 2 Uniondale, NJ Nassau Coliseum
August 5 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
August 8 Boston, MA TD Garden
August 11 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
August 13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
And there you have it … a co-headlining tour with Enrique Iglesias. To be honest, I can’t say I’m all that excited to see him on tour but I am very excited to see Britney. As you can see, these concert dates coincide with the promo flyer we saw on Saturday that listed August 5 as the date in NJ at the Izod Center. I am LOVING that Britney will be starting her tour on the West Coast. I’m planning to deffo see her in LA and Anaheim … and maybe Las Vegas, too :) No word on when tickets go on sale but … I’m sure it won’t be long. There has also been no word on whether there will be a VIP option for tickets (as you may know, Britney offered VIP packages for her last tour that were really fun) so I’m hoping that she will stay on trend with the other big name concert tours and offer VIP access to her shows. It’s Britney Spears Day, y’all!! Have you purchased your copies of Femme Fatale yet? You can download it from Amazon HERE or order a physical copy HERE.
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How is Enrique “headlining” material? He’s had MAYBE a handful of songs people know. I think it should just be Britney, leave Enrique at home. :)
Enrique is having a revival of his career and he is more relevant in pop music now than he was the past couple of years. As long as he doesn’t bring Pit Bull to guest on I Like It I see no problem with this paring.
Actually I think having Enrique there will draw a much more diverse crowd…plus he’s pretty hot right now on the charts.
BULLSHIT….Why isn’t PHOENIX on there??? Now I am pissed!
@Mr. G — OH NO :( I blame Enrique, it’s prolly his fault. Mebbe I’ll see you in LV or … come to LA?? xo
BELIEVE YOU ME I WILL MAKE IT TO ONE OF THESE CONCERTS!!!
come to seattle. we’ll take good care of you here for her show. from one die hard to another.
I’M SO FUCKING EXCITED THAT SHE’S GOING TO SACRAMENTO ‘CAUSE IT’S ONLY 3 HOURS AWAY! I AM SO GOING! I really didn’t want to go to Oakland… : / Wooooooooooooot! Such great news.
I am so freakin excited that there are a couple of Canaidian cities I can go WHOOO HOOOO
no doubt! Winnipeg here I come!
Looks like I’ll be making a trip to St. Paul, MN for this. Ahhh! I’m not too upset about Enrique being there. He is pretty hot and will be nice to look at. ;) But I’d rather it be all Britney.
i’m pretty excited!! enrique has a couple catchy songs.. and he’s nice to look at ;)
august 13-toronto i’m soooo there!! :)
First of all Britney your not Madonna and you haven’t even reach her level yet so you shouldn’t be charging that high a price in this economy today and second for that price I expect live VOCALS not some pretax lip-syncing sh*T